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Sunday, June 26, 2011

The GM Prepares

There are few sights more satisfying and pregnant with anticipation than an envelope stuffed with handouts, ready for tomorrow's Call of Cthulhu session.

Whether it's a sandboxy hexcrawl or a more scenario-driven series of linked adventures, campaign preparation is, to my mind, one of the central responsibilities of good Game Mastering. There's always room for winging it, but there's simply no substitute for good preparation.